Author Candace Fleming

The list below consists of several links to help provide you with more information about Author Candace Fleming.

Author Candace Fleming's website: http://candacefleming.com/

Link to An Educator's Guide for using the books of Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming Book Recording Sheet

Teaching Books.net Interview with Candace Fleming

Random House Interview with Candace Fleming

Adlit Interview with Candace Fleming


The list below contains books in the ERES Library that were written by author Candace Fleming, who will be visiting our school in February 2014.

*Amelia Lost

• A riveting look at the life, disappearance, and search for legendary aviatrix, Amelia Earhart.

*Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life

• Brings together eighteenth-century etchings, artifacts, and quotations to create the effect of a scrapbook of the life of Benjamin Franklin.

*A Big Cheese for the White House

• In 1801, the townspeople of Cheshire, Massachusetts, create a gigantic cheddar cheese to present to President Jefferson at his New Year's Day party.

*Boxes for Katje

• After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.

*Clever Jack Takes the Cake

• This 2014 Monarch nominee tells the story of a poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess.

*The Fabled Fifth Graders at Aesop Elementary School

• Throughout their fifth-grade year, a group of rambunctious students learns fable-like lessons from extraordinary activities, singing hamsters, and eccentric teachers, led by the inimitable Mr. Jupiter.

*The Fabled Fourth Graders at Aesop Elementary School

• An unlikely teacher takes over the disorderly fourth-grade class of Aesop Elementary School with surprising results.

*Gator Gumbo

• Tired of being tormented by bullies, a hungry old alligator conjures up a way to add some special ingredients to his gumbo.

*The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of showman P.T. Barnum

• This biography chronicles the life of showman P. T. Barnum, discussing how he created his legendary circus, the people and events that shaped his life, and the impact Barnum had on the entertainment industry.

*Imogene's Last Stand

• Intrigued by history, young Imogene Tripp tries to save her town's historical society from being demolished in order to build a shoelace factory.

*Lowji Discovers America

• A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America.

*Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!

• After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.

*Oh, No!

• A series of animals falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer.

*On the Day I Died

• In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.

*Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life

• This book gives us a remarkable perspective on a remarkable woman, and presents to a new generation an Eleanor to call its own.

*Papa's Mechanical Fish

• In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.

*Seven Hungry Babies

• A mother bird frantically tries to keep her seven baby birds fed.

*Sunny Boy: The Life and Times of a Tortoise

• In this fictionalized account, Sunny Boy, a 100-year-old- tortoise, describes various events in his long life including the dangerous barrel ride over Niagara Falls that he takes with his daredevil owner on July 5, 1930.

Sunny Boy!: The Life and Times of a Tortoise

*Tippy-Tippy-Tippy, Hide!

• Having worked all summer at keeping bunnies out of his garden, Mr. McGrelly looks forward to a peacreful winter if only he can keep those naughty bunnies from invading his home.

*Who Invited You?

• A rhyming counting tale in which Possum, Skunk, Frog, and other animals join a procession through the swamp, one with a potentially dangerous conclusion.